netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: allow linking a VRF to an OVS bridge

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Message-ID: <b3bee3ec-72c0-0cbf-d1ce-65796907812f@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:45:05 -0600
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, pshelar@....org, dsahern@...nel.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org, ltomasbo@...hat.com,
        echaudro@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] openvswitch: allow linking a VRF to an OVS
 bridge

On 9/20/21 9:34 AM, Antoine Tenart wrote:
> There might be questions about the setup in which a VRF is linked to an
> OVS bridge; I cc'ed Luis Tomás who wrote the article.

My head just exploded. You want to make an L3 device a port of an L2
device.

Can someone explain how this is supposed to work and why it is even
needed? ie., given how an OVS bridge handles packets and the point of a
VRF device (to direct lookups to a table), the 2 are at odds in my head.